JS Online · Mar 7, 2016
Versatile Jake Elmore has played every position in the major leagues
Jake Elmore fields a ground ball during spring training drills at Maryvale Baseball Park.Phoenix – There's versatility in baseball, and then there's Jake Elmore's kind of versatility.
How many players can say they've played every position in the major leagues at one time or another? And, yes, we are including pitcher and catcher.
Elmore, 28, who is in the Milwaukee Brewers' spring camp trying to make the club as a nonroster infielder, checked off those last two items on his positional bucket list on Aug. 19, 2013, while playing for the Houston Astros in a road game at Texas.